Victor Lustig: taking crime to new heights

Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com Few historical monuments stand out as much as the Eiffel Tower, which looms near the Seine River in Paris, France. At 984 feet high, it was the tallest structure in the world until the Chrysler Building was erected in 1929. The Burj Khalifa, a skyscraper in Dubai, at over a half mile high, is now the tallest structure in the world. The Eiffel Tower, built by Gustave Eiffel, was completed in 1889, taking only two years to complete. Eiffel’s desi